Onychargia atrocyana
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Onychargia atrocyana a species of damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. This species is commonly known as the marsh dancer or black marsh dart. It is found in Asia: Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.
It is a medium sized damselfly with velvet-black head, thorax and black-capped brown eyes. The dorsum of the thorax has narrow citron-yellow ante humeral stripes in the sub-adult and teneral stage. The sides are citron-yellow, marked with a broad oblique black stripe over the postero-lateral suture in that stage. But all these marks are obscured by pruinescence in adults. Abdomen is black, unmarked in the adult; but with narrow bluish basal rings on segments 3 to 6. There are yellow marks on the lateral sides of segment 1 and 2 in sub-adults. Female is similar to the sub-adult male with yellow marks.
It breeds in ponds and marshes in forests. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamluk | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 5 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Prayagraj | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 8 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Bangkok | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 10 | New Delhi | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Marsh Dancer sighting in Bangkok on a given day, based on 45 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 58th most-seen of the 245 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July to May
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Marsh Dancer in Bangkok on a given day, against under 5% in June, the lowest month.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Marsh Dancer sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
9th of 12
Of the 12 cities where we can rate Marsh Dancer sightings, Bangkok ranks 9th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tamluk (India, about 30%), Kolkata (India, about 30%) and Guwahati (India, about 30%).
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Marsh Dancer that you can see in Bangkok (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Ditch Jewel (about 30%), Oriental Blue Dasher (about 20%) and Common Parasol (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Marsh Dancer is recorded against all the insects logged in Bangkok (45 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
